REPUBLICANS: Roll Call

"If nominated I will not accept; if
elected I will not serve," wrote General William Tecumseh Sherman to
the Republican convention of 1884, in the most emphatic, most widely
quoted (and misquoted)* nolo episcopari on record. Last week
Minnesota's outspoken Harold Stassen as emphatically announced his
determination to win the Republican nomination in 1948. The formal
Stassen bid, 18 months before convention time, was as unparalleled as
General Sherman's brusque withdrawal.

At a press conference in Washington, Harold Stassen laid it on the line:
"I am a candidate. I intend to develop...